Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

(iti) Cat(i) Matonis

Name (citation form)Mato
SourceIII 11860 p. 2289 = 12013.6
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptioninstrumentum
Materialunknown
Date and origin
Location (modern)Magdalensberg
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityMagdalensberg
District, regionKlagenfurt-Land
Population group
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderm.
Name typecognomen ?
Use of nameL 3 ?
Word formationsimple
Prefix
First element*matu- 'bear' (or 'mati- 'good' ?)
DLG2: 221, NPC 226, GPN 228ff., Meid 198, 234f., EDPC 259
Second element
Suffixon
KGP 41, Stüber 1998: 108, Kajanto 118
Stem classn
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldAnim / App-Char
Other
Relations
General notes
Other attestationsMato /F BEG 1 (ILB 131), Mato HIS 1 (CIL II 926) BEG 2 (CIL XIII 4005, 6140) NOR 2 (CIL III 11860, 11559) LVG 2 (CIL XIII 816, 2583), Matt(o) RAE 1 (CIL III 5836), Matto (f) PAN 1 (CIL III 13379), RAE 1 (CIL III 5868), Matto (m) BEG 2;1 (CIL XIII 5195, 11385, 6950: Bononiae), NOR 1 (CIL III 4874), Matto BEG 2 (CIL XIII 11395, 11610), NAR 1 (CIL XII 1431), praedium Mattonianum ITA 1 (Pais 216), Matto* BEG 1 (CIL XIII 7072).
Secondary literatureNPC 129, 226, DLG2: 221, GPN 228ff., Meid 198, 234f., EDPC 259, AlNor 235